"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's potential misuse of technology)

"If all had gone the way a lot of people thought it would, Jesus Christ would have been among us again, and the American flag would have been planted on Venus and Mars." (Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus)

"Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures." (Hannah Arendt, German political theorist, 1906 - 1975)

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65)

"The more clear the vision of the future, the more powerful the tool of destruction." (Mikhail Bakunin, 1814 - 1876)

"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke)